"Like your lawn sprinkler," said Mr. Posawatz, of g.m..
“就像你家草坪上的自动洒水器一样。”通用的博萨瓦兹如是说。
The White House had no good option other than to rescue g.m..
确实，白宫除了救助通用别无他法。
They forecast G.M. 's market share would drop to 17 percent in 2014.
他们预测通用的市场份额在2014年会下降到17%。
The bailout will, in fact, solve several of G.M. 's biggest problems.
实际上，这次的救助确实会解决通用的一些顽疾。
The question is, Will enough consumers compare them - and choose G.M.?
问题是，是否有足够的消费者拿它们做比较，并且选择通用？
G.M. is expected to invest about thirty-five billion dollars to start the fund.
通用公司预计将投入350亿美元启动基金。
Even under this less rosy forecast, G.M. may still make a small profit next year.
尽管各方都预测前途不甚光明，通用明年却仍有可能小幅盈利。
Cf. G.M. Trevelyan, Shortened History of England (London: Longmans, 1942), p. 510.
参阅g.m .Trevelyan：《英国简史》(伦敦：郎曼书屋，1942年)，510页。
This week, G.M. announced plans to create a seventh brand to sell small passenger cars.
通用汽车在本周宣布了其创立第七个品牌的计划，该品牌将针对小型乘用车市场。
But next year has never arrived, because G.M. cars haven't been as good as their rivals.
但是这个“明年”从没到来过，因为通用汽车根本就不如它的竞争者好。
If ever the market has rendered a just verdict, it is the one rendered on G.M. and Chrysler.
倘若市场曾经做出过公正的裁决，领受这样一份判决书的正是通用和克莱斯勒。
For G.M., the main issue was to find a way to cut its costs for health care for retired workers.
对通用汽车公司而言，关键的问题是找到一个方法能削减付给已退休工人的医保费用。
Surveys of customers by Consumer Reports show that G.M. cars break down more often than Japanese cars.
消费者报道(Consumer Reports)对消费者做的的一个调查表明，通用生产的汽车比日本车更容易发生故障。
The deal resolves a problem that could have upended G.M.’s plan for a quick restructuring, this person said.
该人表示协议解决了在未来可能使通用迅速重组的计划夭折的难题。
G.M. in particular is involved in the development of lithium ion batteries to power the next generation of cars.
特别要提的是，通用参与了以锂离子电池作动力的下一代汽车的开发。
Wagoner has been criticized for his handling of G.M.'s declining fortunes, but he has said he intends to stay on.
批评人士认为，瓦格纳对通用汽车公司近年来的亏损负有责任，不过，他此前一直说希望能够留任。
But the smaller, leaner G.M. of today is no more than a middle-of-the-pack company in terms of sales and revenue.
但是今天“更小更瘦”的通用在销售量及收益上只相当于一个中型企业。
Then again, G.M., at this point, doesn’t need executives who are counting on long careers to change its direction.
同样，通用此刻不需要指望长期职业改变方向的高管们。
But there are other factors holding G.M. back, too, that may be hard to overcome despite the improved lineup of cars.
但是，还有其他的事实也拉住了通用汽车的后腿，无论汽车产品线如何改进，这些都难以克服。
The best assets, including the Chevrolet and Cadillac brands, were formally transferred to the “new” G.M. in court on Friday.
包括雪佛兰和卡迪拉克在内的最好的资产周五已经在法院正式移交给“新”通用。
Now, he says, G.M. 's new models can be compared to the best that the company's Japanese and German competitors have to offer.
现在，他宣称，通用汽车的新产品可以和日本、德国的竞争对手提供的最好的车型作比较。
Yet those of us who make up G.M. 's brand new group of majority owners - taxpayers - have to hope that Mr. Henderson is right.
然而现在是2009年，我们是通用品牌的新的所有者—纳税人中的一员。我们只能希望Henderson先生说的会实现。
In the United States, G.M. is down to just four brands, after shedding Pontiac, Saab, Saturn and Hummer during its bankruptcy.
通用在破产期间出售了旗下的庞迪克、萨博、土星和悍马，这使其在美国的品牌只剩4个。
I remember when Charley Wilson”—the president of G.M. in the forties and fifties—“said, What’s good for G.M. is good for America.
我记得通用汽车公司的总裁查理·威尔森在他四十岁到五十岁期间曾经说过，对通用好，也就意味着对美国好。
Imagine, then, that someone asked you to make a conservative forecast of G.M. 's market share five years from now. What would you say?
那么想像一下，如果有人要你对通用五年后的市场份额做一个保守预测，你会说多少呢？
The goal will be more difficult to achieve as G.M. and Chrysler mount their own turnaround efforts with less debt and leaner organizations.
如今，伴随着通用公司、克莱斯勒相继走出破产保护，利用更低的债务来复苏这一目标似乎更难实现。
G.M. 's trip through bankruptcy was so swift, in fact, that Mr. Henderson is rushing to make cuts he thought he would have more time to consider.
通用申请破产之途十分迅速，实际上亨德森现在正急着裁员——他本以为他会有更多考虑的时间。
G.M. 's trip through bankruptcy was so swift, in fact, that Mr. Henderson is rushing to make cuts he thought he would have more time to consider.
通用申请破产之途十分迅速，实际上亨德森现在正急着裁员——他本以为他会有更多考虑的时间。
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